Artist Statement
Jiang is a multimedia artist living in Los Angeles. Born in Guangzhou China, Jiang moved to Los Angeles, California when she was ten. She received her B.A. in Visual Arts (Media) from the University of California, San Diego in 2020. A video game enthusiast who grew up in a multicultural environment, inspired by her personal experiences of her cultural differences and her passion for the gaming community. She works in photography, graphic design, digital-art, and videography, exploring narratives of Asian American and gaming cultures through identities, humor, and memories.
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Jiang’s Beginning is a digital art artist book that examines her first childhood memories as an immigrant in America. The project delves into racism and exclusions through text and comic-like illustrations. Her documentary project, JuhaRL is online, focuses on a unique perspective of social relationships in online games through personal narratives.
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Recent works include a multimedia project that exemplifies the gaming community’s aspects of connections, friendships, and family through photography and digital illustrations. Her current work is four-panel comic that utilizes her personal experiences as an Asian/Chinese American to narrate short stories that can be culturally relatable with others to create social connections through online platforms.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
2020 B.A. Visual Arts (Media), University of California, San Diego
Videography
2020 - Destination, 3 minutes
2019 - JuhaRL is online, 7 minutes
2019 - The Movement Within, 5 minutes (with Sophia Yu and April Tran)
2018 - Discovering Colorblind Racism Through the Rainbow, 5 minutes, (with Isaih Maylad and Evelyn Liao)
2017 - Project Atlantis, 3 minutes (with Crystal Li, Daphne Blas, Hao Liu, Michelle Sohn)
Photography
2020 - Community, Color
2018 - Roadtrip, B&W
2018 - Obsessions, Color (with Faye Wang and Chiao Wang)
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Graphic Design/Merchandise Design
2020 - UCSD Esports Twitch Offline Screen Graphic
2020 - UCSD Esports Information Cards
2020 - UCSD Esports Player Spotlight Social Media Templates
2018 - Triton Gaming Expo Long-Sleeves Design
2019 - Triton Gaming Expo Keychains Design
2019 - Triton Gaming Winter WonderLAN Cover Graphic
2019 - Triton Gaming Winter WonderLAN Flyer Graphic
2019 - Triton Gaming Winter Recruitment Graphic (with Franchesca Ho)
2019 - Triton Gaming Fall General Body Meeting Flyer Graphic
2019 - Triton Gaming Winter General Body Meeting Presentation Template
2019 - Triton Gaming Winter General Body Meeting Facebook Frame Design
2018 - Triton Gaming Expo T-Shirt Design
2018 - Triton Gaming Expo Lanyard Design
2018 - Triton Gaming Expo Pamphlet Design (with Lillian Lee)
2018 - Triton Gaming Expo Keychains Design
2018 - Triton Gaming College Clash Cover Graphic
2018 - Triton Gaming College Clash Stream Overlays
2018 - Triton Gaming Fall Recruitment Graphic
2018 - Triton Gaming 1Up2You Fundraiser Graphic
Recent Works
2020 - My Daily Life Featuring My Asian Mother, B&W, Comic
2020 - Aestrarium, Color, Concept Book (with April Tran and Bianca Padrid)
2019 - Beginning, B&W, Artist Book
Other Photography
2018 - 2020 Triton Gaming Events
2019 - ã‚ャンディー (Merchandise by Anh D. Nguyen)